Common Name — The fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) — or URL — for which you plan to use your certificate (the area of your site you want customers to connect to using SSL).

An SSL certificate issued for www.coolexample.com is not valid for secure.coolexample.com. If you want your SSL to cover secure.coolexample.com, make sure the common name submitted in the CSR is secure.coolexample.com.

If you are requesting a wildcard certificate, add an asterisk (*) on the left side of the Common Name (e.g., *.coolexample.com or *.secure.coolexample.com).

Organization — The name in which your business is legally registered. The organization must be the legal registrant of the domain name in the certificate request.

Note: If you are enrolling as an individual, enter the certificate requester's name in the Organization field, and the Doing Business As (DBA) name in the Organizational Unit field.

Organizational Unit — Use this field to differentiate between divisions within an organization (such as "Engineering" or "Human Resources").

City/Locality — The full name of the city in which your organization is registered/located. Do not abbreviate.

State/Province — The full name of the state or province where your organization is located. Do not abbreviate.

Country — The two-letter International Organization for Standardization- (ISO-) format country code for the country in which your organization is legally registered.

Note: To get a copy, right-click the .req file, select Open With, and then select a text editor like Notepad.

Paste all of the text, including ----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST---- and ----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST----, in our online application.

Once we approve your application, download the primary and intermediate certificate.

Install the certificate by completing the pending request, binding the certificate to your website, and then restarting your site.

Note: As a courtesy, we provide information about how to use certain third-party products, but we do not endorse or directly support third-party products and we are not responsible for the functions or reliability of such products.

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